Robert Reich is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He has served in three national administrations, including as Secretary…
Complex Europe: Quantifying the cost of disintegration
Nationalism and anti-European sentiments have been on the rise in the past decade and have brought to life debates about the end or reversal of the process of European integration. The exit of the UK…
Financing larger UK companies through Covid-19
Many companies have experienced a sudden and unanticipated decline in their revenues as a result of Covid-19, putting pressure on cash flows and leaving many with cash-flow deficits. Provided that revenues ultimately recover (even if not…
Kominers’s Conundrums: A Puzzle That Spins Until It…
Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard Department of Economics. Previously, he was a junior fellow at…
Cheaper Diamonds Fire Life Into the Hidden World…
An employee examines rough diamonds in the diamond district of Antwerp, Belgium. Photographer: Dario Pignatelli/Bloomberg Photographer: Dario Pignatelli/Bloomberg For the past six months, the global diamond hubs in Antwerp, Belgium, and Mumbai have been at…
Lufthansa Weighs Cutting More Jobs as Travel Slump…
Lufthansa crew hold sachets of disposable handwipes at Frankfurt Airport. Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg Sign up to our Next Africa newsletter and follow Bloomberg Africa on Twitter Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe’s biggest airline,…
Bahrain Plans Return to Debt Market With Mix…
Follow us @middleeast for more news on the region. Bahrain is planning to return to the dollar bond market, according to people familiar with the matter, as the country faces one of the world’s biggest…
Berlin Protest Against Virus Restrictions Ends in Clashes
People gather at the Victory Column in the city center to hear speeches during a protest against coronavirus-related restrictions and government policy on Aug. 29. Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Police clashed…
Trump Is Bringing the Iran Nuclear Deal Back…
Photographer: Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images Photographer: Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images President Donald Trump has done Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden a considerable favor by calling for “snapback sanctions” against Iran under a 2015 United Nations Security Council…